Re: [ros-dev] New Release - how're you feeling?

[James Tabor]

Hi!
WaxDragon wrote:
>   I agree the site needs updated.
>  
>  Still, there have been several key improvements since 0.2.6:
>  
>  * qemu's user-net ne2000 works right from the bootcd
>  * win32k has had some work, making at least second stage installer
>  more responsive
>  * rbuild has been successfully merged
>  * all the other crap that we have fixed
>   
Major fixes to old hacks. Improvements to ntoskrnl.

>   OTOH,
>  
>  * networking has regressed in some areas
>  * all the other crap we have regressed or broken
>   
Yes three steps forward and two steps back.

>   There is alot of talk of our "users", but I
> don't think we have a good
>  idea of who they really are, at this point in time.
>  
>  Haven't you ever updated a piece of software just because it was
>  newer?  I can't remember the last time I updated my linux kernel other
>  than it has just been released.  Can't we just go back in the late
>  15xxx revs, pick a release that builds and generally works and run it
>  though the release process?
>  
>  We are so far along, I could be almost tempted to wait for 0.3.0 after
>  the current header work, if we could get a focused effort on
>  networking after it's done.  It would need to be a release soon
>  though, I remember telling people in IRC late last year that 0.3.0 was
>  going to be at the end of the year.  What about those "users"?
>  
>  You guys are doing a kickass job as always,
>  WD
>   
James